In the spirit of James Taranto’s “Great Orators of the Democratic Party” theme, here’s some inspirational rhetoric on democracy from the Wall Street Journal’s Daniel Henninger:

People tend to regard the idea of “democratic” politics with high reverence, when in practice it consists most of the time of the right of any citizen to describe one’s opponent as an idiot, or worse.

I love the scare quotes around “democratic.” Elitist much?

PS See my previous posts on Henninger for more.